RIT team heads to San Francisco business incubator

5:00 PM,
Jan. 23, 2014

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A team of students from Rochester Institute of Technology's National Technical Institute for the Deaf is heading to the LEAP AXLR8R business accelerator in San Francisco to work on commercializing their technology aimed at translating sign language into text.

The accelerator is run by computer input hardware maker Leap Motion, and the RIT team is one of 10 teams accepted - each of them using Leap Motion technology to develop their proposed products or businesses.

The RIT team is receiving $25,000 and technical support from Leap Motion. ...